Bed-rail fastener.



L. P. ORR.

BED RAIL PASTENBR.

APPLICATION IILED JULY 5, 1910.

984,387. Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

awe/Mom UNITED STATES PATENT UFFTQE.

LEE P. ORR, OF MONROE, WASHINGTON.

BED-RAIL FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lee I. ORR, a citizen of the United States, residingat Monroe, in the county of Snohomish and State of \Vashington, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Bed-Rail Fasteners, of which'the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bed rail fasteners and has forone of its objects the provision of a fastener by means of which therail may be locked to the post in an expeditious manner and may bereadily detached therefrom without the necessity of lifting the rail orshaking the same to effect disengagement.

Another object is the provision of a fastener which may be employed withwooden and metallic rails and posts.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully hereinafterappear, the present invention consists in certain novel details ofconstruction and arrange ment of parts, hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointedout in the appended claim; it being understood. that various changes inthe form, proportion, size, and minor details of the device, may bemade, within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification;-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the lower portion of a post and oneend portion of a metallic rail also showing the device in side elevationand applied to the post and rail. Fig. 2 is a similar view but showingone end of the fastener applied to a wooden rail. Fig. 3 is a frontelevation of the lower end portion of a bedpost showing one part of thedevice in end elevation. Fig. 1 is a detail perspective of one endportion of the metallic rail showing the member to engage with the post.Fig. 5 is a similar view of a wooden rail showing the member to engagewith the said post.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to designate correspondingparts throughout.

The bedpost is designated by the numeral 5 and is provided adjacent toits lower end and on the front side thereof with a pair of spaced lugs 6and 7. The lugs 6 and 7 are arranged at right angles to the post and areSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 5, 1910.

Patented Feb. 141i, 1911.

Serial No. 570,381.

longitudinally channeled on their opposed inner faces as shown at 8.

In Figs. 1 and 4t 1: have shown a metallic rail designated by thenumeral 9. The rail terminates at one end in a head or shoulder 10, saidhead or shoulder being oblong in contour its length being somewhatgreater than the width of the rail and corresponding approximately tothe distance between the opposite outer faces of the lugs (5 and 7.Formed integral or otherwise secured to the outer face of the head orshoulder 10 is a tenon 11. This member corresponds approximately inthickness to the widths of the channels 8 and in length approximately tothe length of said channels, its width being approximately equal to thedistance between the floors of said channels. As shown in the (ilrawingsthe tenon 11 is longitudinally recessed to provide sides 12 and 13, thesides 12 and 13 being provided with alining openings, which are adaptedto aline with similar openings formed in the lugs (5 and 7, theseopenings receiving a bolt 1. 1, which serves to lock the parts when thetenon is inserted into the channel 8.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 2 and 5 a wooden rail 15 is employed,the end of which corresponds in width to the distance between theopposite outer faces of the lugs (3 and 7. Formed integral or otherwisesecured on the end of the rail is a tenon 1(5, and arranged on theopposite sides of the said tenon are metallic bearing plates 17 and 18,which bear on the floors of the channels 8. The tenon 16 islongitiulinally recessed to provide sides 19 and 20, said sides havingalining openings which register with similar openings formed in thebearing plates 17 and 18, these openings in turn registering, when thetenon is in the channels, with openings formed in the lugs 7 and S.\Vhen the parts are so positioned a bolt or pin 21 is passed through theopenings serving to prevent disengagement of the post and rail.

From the foregoing, it is evident that I have provided a device which iscompara tively simple in structure and inexpensive inmanufacture,embodying few parts and these so arranged that the danger ofderangement will be reduced to a minimum.

I claim A bed rail fastener comprising a post provided with a pair ofspaced oblong lugs e:-: tending forwardly and at right angles to oneside of the post and lying in a vertical plane, and having their opposedinner faces longitudinally channeled, such channels extending from thepost and opening through the outer ends of the lugs, a bed rail havingone end portion of a width corresponding to the distance between theopposite outer faces of said lugs, spaced tenons extending forwardlyfrom the end of the rail and insertilole into the channels of said lugs,and a pin 10 passing through alining openings in the lugs and tenons.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEE P. ORB. lVitnesses J. C. FALCONER, NELLIE FRANCIS.

